Web-based online game for merchants and buyers

Abstract

A website and/or an App allows merchants and individual sellers list their products and services. On the same website, buyers will play a game. Merchants or sellers will have two options. One option: let the buyers play a game, a portion of a game, a level of a game, which can be a trivia game, or an electronic game. If the buyer or buyers win(s), then the price of the product or service will drop by a certain amount in price; but if the buyer or buyers lose, then price of the product will go up a certain amount in price. Another option: the merchants or individual sellers will list X number of the products, and let the buyer play within a time frame. The buyers having the best score or best time frame will have the best discounted price.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method using a website or an app where merchants and/or sellers will list their products and/or services, comprising the steps of:
 providing a game on a website or an app;   enabling at least one buyer or potential buyer to play a game, and if the buyer or potential buyer wins then the price of a product or service will drop by a first predetermined amount in price, while if the buyer loses then the price of the product or service will go up by a second predetermined amount in price.   
     
     
         2 . A method using a website or an app where merchants and/or sellers will list a number of products and/or services, comprising the steps of:
 providing a game on a website or an app;   enabling at least one buyer or potential buyer to play within a time frame such that whoever among the buyers or potential buyers has the best score and/or best time will have the best discounted price.   
     
     
         3 . A method using a website or an app where merchants and/or sellers will list their products and/or services and buyers or potential buyers can compete for discounts, comprising the steps of:
 providing a first system enabling at least one seller or merchant to list products and/or services, and providing a game for at least one buyer or potential buyer to play;   said first system providing a price drop when the buyer or potential buyer wins, and providing a price increase when the buyer or potential buyer does not win;   
       said first system allowing the buyer or potential buyer to play the game again following a win, and also allowing the buyer or potential buyer to play the game again when the buyer or potential buyer does not win;
 and at the end of play the buyer or potential buyer purchases a product or service at a discount according to the results of play. 
 
     
     
         4 . A method using a website or an app where merchants and/or sellers will list their products and/or services and buyers or potential buyers can compete for discounts, comprising the steps of:
 providing a computer and a computer memory;   providing a system for listing X number of products and/or services and providing Y number of discounts, and providing a game for a plurality of buyers or potential buyers to play; and the system providing for N scorers to win a highest discount level, M scorers to win a second highest discount level;   said system storing scores to said computer memory and using said computer to determine the N highest scorers and provide said highest discount level to said N highest scorers; and   using said computer to determine the next M highest scorers and provide said second discount level to said next M highest scorers.